EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Delia Ramirez is bringing a bill to eliminate DHS a day after the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.

Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security

The bill to eliminate the Department of Homeland Security comes a day after the HSI raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.

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Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

men who sacrifice liberty for bibberty deserve neither

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

Adrienne LaFrance@adriennelaf.bsky.social · 2w ago

New just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

They should invent a version of sleep you can go back to after waking up at 4 a.m. for no reason.

*leaves car in Drive and walks away* oh my God it's moving! My car is haunted!!! Is it sentient? What do you want, car?! Please, negotiate in good faith with me, car. I'm begging you. Oh, God, it's not stopping. It must want to take over the world. There's nothing to be done. I serve you now, car.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 3w ago

The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...

I dunno i guess i just think it's bad that, instead of rebuilding cultures of trust & shared consensus knowledgemaking which are fundamental to our society, we're just increasingly handing over decision- & sense-making authority to tools which a) we can't trust & b) further degrade trust foundations

Almost like this is not in the interest of public health

James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate a federal requirement that states publicize and solicit public input on applications for air pollution permits for a range of industrial facilities, including new data centers and the power plants needed to run them."

Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I know this is going to sound extremely radical, or crazy,” she recounted telling the woman, “but ICE is there at the gate, and they're looking for you."

As Dave notes, this is very bad. If you’d like to know more about data centers and resource management from someone who actually studies this stuff for a living, may I humbly suggest this, instead news.vt.edu/articles/202...

There's a power/water trade-off in data center resource allocation

Landon Marston, who studies sustainable water resources management, is in the middle of the growing challenge of power and water resource allocation for data centers.

news.vt.edu

Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...

Emmett Till would be 85 today. TODAY. Every semester, I think about the fact that he would be one of my mama's siblings; older than her, but younger than her sister. Not a distant past. Someone who should've experienced growing old.

Marlo says it's her turn to pick the movie

Two years after Darializa Avila Chevalier took part in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia University, she is now set to represent the district in which the university is located in Congress.

In case you missed it, REAL HERO SHIT BOOK 2: HARDER THAN IT LOOKS comes out 7/28/26!!! More info and hopefully a book launch event to come!

Kendra, spooky version@kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New street date for my book just dropped!!! Also that means I’m going to be uploading RHS1 as a webcomic on my Patreon (for all $1+ backers) even more frequently until release day so you can be all caught up and ready for the next volume!!! www.patreon.com/kendrawcandr...

the key to the city should unlock a sick dungeon underneath the city's sewers you get to explore. the knicks team gets to adventure in a big ass dungeon during the off season

This is bombshell stuff.

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

Spacex is just a continuation of the logic of crypto, in which something is valuable because some people think other people will pay more for it in the future, and *not* because it does useful things: johnquiggin.com/2018/02/09/b... 8/

Bitcoin kills the efficient market hypothesis (now with full article)

I have a piece in the New York Times looking at the implications for the bitcoin bubble for economic theory and, in particular, for the (Strong) Efficient (Financial) Markets Hypothesis (EMH) which…

johnquiggin.com

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social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

this is in fact amazingly good

🌈Wally ~ Meditating in her Cave🌈@wallyaurora.bsky.social · 4mo ago

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

they also led to perhaps the best written paragraph on all of Wikipedia

today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names

Fighting for my life in the bathroom right now (someone left the window open and a wandering Ronin got in).

These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men 21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82 21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant Nobody rioted over their murders www.bbc.com/news/article...

A picture of violence: The 30 women killed in more than four years

In at least 21 of the 30 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.

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We work our assess off tirelessly to bring them the biggest event of the year just so they can fire whole departments right after. They would have nothing if it weren’t for us and we’re just line items on a spreadsheet. FAIR WAGES 4 IGN UNION!!

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4mo ago

IGN lays off tech workers following Summer Game Fest, where pro-union messages were erased aftermath.site/ign-summer-gam...

I love the NYC tie-ins with the Knicks' return to the Finals as much as the next person, but they've gone too far in getting Matt Murdock to ref.

oh look it's my AV Club debut! I wrote about Backrooms' blunt metaphor for a generation's codependent relationship with online spaces and hostile relationship with irl ones www.avclub.com/backrooms-ge...

Backrooms uses the bluntest metaphors to capture a uniquely Gen Z fear

Backrooms uses the bluntest metaphors to capture a uniquely Gen Z fear

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On now and for a while!

dom griffin@allnewdom.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’m stoked for the stream because watching movies with pals is itself such a fulfilling endeavor, but anything raised will go a long way to helping us actually get into a real apartment now that my partner has found a job. See you all tonight!

Oliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...